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Planning application documents: what to read first
Understand planning application documents, officer reports and decision notices. Use a reading checklist, document table and worked example to inspect a case.
England · Local authority
PlanningTrack collects planning applications and decisions from the public planning register of Stratford-on-Avon District Council. Search an address, application reference or proposal. Official Stratford-on-Avon website
73,371 approved · 9,087 refused · 7,730 withdrawn. Received dates in our records: 4 Dec 1987 to 30 Oct 2026. Most recent record check: 7 Nov 2026. Counts reflect the last collected status; some records may be out of date.
Explore published planning boundaries and follow their source records for designation details. Coverage varies: an empty map does not mean there are no restrictions. Check the council’s current maps and documents before relying on a boundary.
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Data downloaded 14 Sept 2026. Display boundaries are simplified and indicative. Map record counts are not a complete count of designations or directions.
Sources: Planning Data conservation areas and Article 4 direction areas. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Hope House Winderton Road Winderton OX15 5JQ
Received 18 Jan 2019Malthouse Barn The Malt House 25 Welford Road Barton Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4NP
Received 18 Nov 2024120 Malthouse Lane Earlswood Solihull West Midlands B94 5SA
Received 21 Mar 200755 High Street Alcester Warwickshire B49 5AQ
Received 4 Mar 1999Holly Cottage Middle Lane Shotteswell OX17 1JQ
Received 12 Mar 20219 Brook End Close Henley-in-Arden Warwickshire B95 5JE
Received 20 Oct 2009Hampton Crest Hampton Lucy Warwick CV35 8AT
Received 28 May 2025Wellesbourne Water Mill Kineton Road Wellesbourne Warwick CV35 9HG
Received 27 Oct 2004The Nurseries Avon Dassett Southam Warwickshire
Received 12 Jul 1993The Coach House Sambourne Lane Sambourne Redditch B96 6PL
Received 18 Aug 20162 Rushbrook Lane Tanworth-In-Arden Warwickshire B94 5HW
Received 30 Apr 2015Wilkes Farm Fulready Ettington Stratford-upon-Avon CV37 7PE
Received 11 May 20264 Bank View Butlers Marston Warwick CV35 0NQ
Received 3 Sept 2024Armscote Manor Armscote Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 8DA
Received 3 Feb 200614 Greenfields Close Shipston-on-Stour CV36 4HA
Received 11 Aug 2025The Thatched House Hampton Lucy Warwick CV35 8AT
Received 27 Feb 2014Greenside Lower Tysoe Warwick CV35 0BW
Received 24 Aug 202637 High Street Henley-in-Arden B95 5AA
Received 15 Jun 201125B Grange Road Bidford-on-Avon Alcester B50 4BY
Received 20 Dec 202331 Allendale Crescent Studley Warwickshire B80 7PY
Received 6 Jul 199365 Green Lane Studley Warwickshire B80 7EY
Received 12 Jul 2022Arden Joinery-Franklyn Ardens Grafton Alcester Warwickshire B49 6DS
Received 6 Jun 19942 Southam Road Priors Marston Southam CV47 7RQ
Received 29 Jan 2018Ashcroft Stud The Green Snitterfield Stratford-upon-Avon Warwickshire CV37 0JE
Received 8 Mar 2000Records are ordered by application ID, not submission date. Use search to find a particular address or proposal.
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Set up an area alertStart with the address or application reference. Open a record to read the proposal, dates and available documents, then check the official register for the latest plans and consultation details. If nothing appears, check coverage before treating the result as a complete planning history.
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These figures describe applications collected by PlanningTrack for Stratford-on-Avon District Council, across all dates currently available. They are a partial dataset, rather than an authority-wide performance measure. The date range does not establish continuous historical coverage.
The approval percentage is approved records divided by approved plus refused records. Pending, withdrawn and unknown outcomes are excluded. No percentage is shown until there is an approved or refused record.
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